Pick Your Pet

Template:Firstbox Pick Your Pet is a game show from the first season of Sesame Street, and is a parody of The Dating Game. It is the show's very first game show segment.

Pick Your Pet is hosted by Guy Smiley, who was named Sonny Friendly at this point. The object of the game is to wear a blindfold and ask questions to three different animals, and then pick which one the contestant wants to be its pet. The contestant in this skit is Lucy Jones (who would later become Betty Lou), and the animal choices are a bird (Little Bird), a dog (Baskerville), and a monster (Beautiful Day Monster), the last of which Sonny considers to be hideous and doesn't think the contestant would want.

Lucy asks a series of questions to the animals, asking them questions that would relate to a cat. Her time runs up before she can ask Beautiful Day Monster any questions. She has to choose, so she picks Beautiful Day Monster. The monster acts like a cat, so Lucy is happy with her pet.

Performers

• Jim Henson: Sonny Friendly and Little Bird.
• Frank Oz: Lucy Jones, Beautiful Day Monster, Baskerville, and Announcer.